MA doctors join to vent frustrations with EHRs

"Imagine," said Dr. Steven J. Stack, president of the American Medical Association. "In a world where a 2-year-old can operate an iPhone, you have graduate-educated physicians brought to their knees by electronic health records." Has anyone ever summed up better the monumental frustrations that many doctors encounter when grappling with electronic medical records? And those frustrations have only been growing as federal requirements for electronic medical records have kicked in and grown teeth — to the point that the AMA has now launched a campaign — called Break the Red Tape — to call for a pause on new medical-record rules.